Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate for Taipei mayor Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) launched his election slogan and first political advertisement yesterday, promising residents that “Taipei [will] surpass Taipei,” in the run-up to the year-end special municipality elections.
Speaking to dozens of reporters and party stalwarts yesterday morning with his family in attendance, the 62-year-old former premier and two-term Taipei County commissioner vowed to open up lines of dialogue with city residents who he said were tired with Taipei’s lack of progress under Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌).
“I want to invite all Taipei City residents that have dreams, courage and enthusiasm … to join us and create a team that can change Taipei,” Su said.
“We want to unite our strength, change the current situation, overcome the past and design an ideal city — let Taipei surpass Taipei,” he said.
During his speech, Su also invoked US President Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign theme of “change,” saying that he believed everyone was dissatisfied with the current situation and that change means to become better every day.
Su played up his administrative experience and said he hoped voters would recognize that he had the understanding and the ability to improve Taiwan’s capital city.
His campaign also unveiled its first election advertisement, a one-minute spot that features Su’s voiceover and the slogan, “Taipei [will] surpass Taipei,” interspersed with the names of other cities including Paris, New York, Seoul and Tokyo.
“Taipei does not need to envy these [other cities] ... Taipei is a city unlike any other. But the most ideal Taipei is one that surpasses its past, ethnicities and itself,” Su says in the advertisement.
Su is perhaps best known for his iconic “Go, go, go” slogan, a recurring theme in his past election campaigns.
Polls suggest that the matchup between the two candidates in Taipei City could be narrowing in recent weeks, buoyed by DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) addition to the lineup of DPP candidates.
Despite previous opinion polls that showed Hau with as much as a 9 percent lead, more recent polls show that Su has closed the lead to within 5 percent, within the margin of error.
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